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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forget to take into account that every Boeing employee knows they are building systems that can kill people if things go wrong. Meanwhile on Linux a lot of bugs really don't matter that much, especially in -rc and otherwise non LTS versions.

Taking that into account their safety culture is much worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For a company building bloody airplanes - yes, I totally agree.